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• Blog / Academics & Research

  I need a fix ‘cause I’m goin’ down Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love a 40%.

  

  . It's about that time of season when MIT students buckle down, chain ... quintessential MIT story to tell freshmen during orientation is "Oh yeah, I cruised ... hour, and since then I've never actually failed a test in an MIT class

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Radia Perlman ‘73, Mother of the Internet Radia Perlman has three MIT degrees and more than 80 patents.

  

  know about the MIT alumna who is known as the "Mother of the Internet ... after, a teaching assistant at MIT enlisted Perlman to help him. "He ... at an MIT lab that taught programming to children. Always aiming for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Post-engagement, pre-Bahamas An exciting week!

  

  both powered to world records (Daedalus and Decavitator) by MIT aero ... who failed it in the fall. Some courses at MIT have "on" terms and "off ... "big" things like ecology and evolution, which most other MIT biology

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / Events

  NSUW Coffee Chat Casual conversations with professors

  

  Kellogg is an Assistant Professor of Organization Studies at MIT's Sloan ... Assistant with the MIT Workplace Center. Her research examines the micro ... coming to MIT, Kate spent six years in consulting at Bain & Company and

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Deadline: Your Questions [Updated] With the Early Action deadline fast approaching, I'll try to answer some last minute questions.

  

  very flexible with your teacher recommendations. The MyMIT Tracking is up ... to worry at this time about documents that are not showing on MyMIT; we ... early to MIT without attaching a research abstract. However, my research

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ten Years (On Dreams) Ten years ago, I was exactly where I wanted to be.

  

  me meant, ultimately, getting into MIT, leading to some unknown secure ... (other than, of course, an MIT boyfriend). I hadn’t yet experienced or ... of high school, and having graduated from MIT, I live with roommates in

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  for change in (expected + unexpected): print(change.get_thoughts())

  

  Before coming to MIT, I consumed a lot of Content™ about college ... Tube advice videos or romanticized audiobooks or way too many of the MIT ... says that MIT is hard. [annotation note="using “everyone” here for

  • by Allison E. '27
  • June 19, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Monologuing a mock-up for the MITMonologues

  

  The MIT Monologues (MITMo) is a spinoff of the play The Vagina ... about my experience as a transgender person at MIT. The one thing I just ... embracing memories of my time at MIT because I feel that's already talked

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 13, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Immaterial Girl in a Material World There is an imposter among us

  

  mathematical computing) this semester, and I blow glass in MIT’s glass lab. The ... story of how I ended up in 6-2. 6-9 I entered MIT last fall knowing I ... learn at MIT… 3A-6 While all this was happening, I discovered my interests

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 1, 2022
• Blog / CPW

  the two sides of CPW CPW as told by a prefrosh and an upperclassman

  

  ] I committed to MIT a couple of weeks ago, so my main goal at CPW was ... the rest of the CPW weather - there's a longstanding joke that "the MIT ... ] [caption id="attachment_43570" align="aligncenter" width="671"] ankita w/ MIT

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 24, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes: Junior Spring Edition + notes on MIT academics in general

  

  like to share it with you. I'd also like to connect my experience to MIT academics in general. In the descriptions of 6.00 and 17.803, I talk about MIT problem sets. The 17.803 section also discusses why MIT right now is the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 25, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Unity

  

  joined dozens of MIT students, blending into a massive crowd of faces and ... psychological ones. In my second blogpost on MIT Admissions, I talked about a grad ... time. Recently, I reached out to parts of the MIT Community via e

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 30, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  That wasn’t skiing, that was falling with style! Guest post by Katy Kem '16

  

  favorite thing about MIT – the ski team! For those of you who don’t know, at MIT the month of January is not part of the normal school year. Instead ... prefer to spend the duration of IAP with the MIT Alpine Ski team, living in

  • by Joel G. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Highlight Reel Parents! A cappella! Thesis! Superheroes! Film class! And generally hanging in there @ MIT

  

  post detailing how and why I went on leave from MIT, in honor of my three ... year is for the concert Saturday evening, when MIT’s a cappella groups ... , MIT’s nerdiest a cappella group (which is really saying something), for

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Now and Then and Maybe Later Tying up loose ends and weathering the calm before the storm we call "Fall Semester"

  

  labs here at MIT, and start emailing people until I found someone willing to let me in. I think it's important to consider the fact that MIT is ... interwoven into the very fabric of MIT’s culture. According to the 2014 MIT

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • August 30, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 2 With guest appearances by NJ Representative Rush Holt and MA Senator Elizabeth Warren

  

  undergraduate at MIT majoring in physics. Rush Holt: Physics! Me: Yes, I gather ... awkward” alarm. Rush Holt: Who do you work with at MIT? Is Rush Holt intimately familiar with MIT’s physics department…? I give him a few names. He

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 5, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Think About This and maybe it will help you.

  

  school who applied to MIT. Two got in. Both of them are xylophone players ... . Here's another example: "MIT clearly only accepts people from (x Country ... 've heard this year: MIT has a clear preference for Asian students. MIT

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • March 21, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The good advice The many different flavors of advising at MIT.

  

  -discussed topics. Hence, today: Undergraduate Advising at MIT. Freshman advising ... advising, the freshman is assigned to an MIT faculty member or staffperson ... get a lot of one-on-one attention from their advisors, who are MIT

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Airplane boy strikes again Adam writes about his UROP.

  

  MIT, I've worked as a UROP on two research projects. Freshman and ... through junior high and high school. By the time I got to MIT, it was pretty ... desirable internship at Draper Labs, an MIT-affiliated research institute

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / Events

  “Freshman Musical Dorms” A question inspires an entire entry about housing. But I threw in some other stuff…

  

  the Handwritten Note was the commencement speaker. And the MIT ... for a painfully long description of the MIT Housing Process ... questions 4 u about MIT but had to get in gear and out the door. btw I am so

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 5, 2006